| Methuselah is the world’s oldest individual tree that lives 10,000 feet above sea level in the Inyo National Forest in California, USA.
A staggering 4,765 years old, this primeval tree was already a century old when the first pyramid was built in Egypt. The tree is hidden among other millennia-old Great Basin bristlecone pines in a grove called the “Forest of Ancients”. To protect the tree from vandalism, the forest service keeps its exact location secret which means that nobody is exactly sure what Methuselah looks like, but the ancient bristlecone pine pictured above could be it. |